Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All
Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1
Fixed In:
13.1.0
Opened: Jan 18, 2017 Severity: 4-Minor
When bash expands a parameter stored in a string that exceeds the memory allocation limit for string expansion, it crashes with a segmentation fault error.
Bash crashes with a segmentation fault error, and the command fails.
Bash expands a parameter stored in a string that exceeds the memory allocation limit for string expansion.
None.
With this update (bash-4.1.2-41.el6_8), the string expansion code has been updated, and bash now exits gracefully with an error message instead of crashing when a string is too long to expand.